Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index

Profiles seven dozen people throughout history with various physical or mental disabilities. Additional articles provide historical background on the disability rights movement

John Milton -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Thaddeus Stevens -- Louis Braille -- Harriet Tubman -- John Wesley Powell -- Thomas Edison -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Helen Keller -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Horace Pippin -- Dorothea Lange -- Frida Kahlo -- Sir Douglas Bader -- Jacobus tenBroek -- Harold Russell -- The fight for disability rights legislation -- Bill Veeck -- Alicia Alonso -- Roy Campanella -- Robert Dole -- Daniel Inouye -- John Langston Gwaltney -- Christy Brown -- Beverly Butler -- Audre Lorde -- Ed Roberts -- Henry Kisor -- Wilma Rudolph -- The challenge of sports -- Stephen Hawking -- I. King Jordan -- Judi Chamberlin -- Wilma Mankiller -- Itzhak Perlman -- Patty Duke -- Harilyn Rousso -- For the disabled, of the disabled -- Temple Grandin -- Judy Heumann -- Stevie Wonder -- John Callahan -- The right to live, the right to die -- Susan Nussbaum -- John Hockenberry -- Tom Cruise -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- Chris Burke -- Disabled students in the mainstream -- Marlee Matlin -- Jean Driscoll -- Jim Abbott -- Heather Whitestone -- To find a way or to make one : technological aids for the disabled

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